Editorial

A new era

The editorial staff of TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
was recently informed that our journal had been
accredited by the national department of education.

The new status means that
TD now forms part of a select group of scientific publications in South Africa. We now
have the responsibility to ensure that, in line with the quality of our sister
publications in academia, high standards are maintained in respect of academic
editing and publishing.

It also implies that contributors, in the service of higher
educational and research institutions in South Africa, whose articles are
published in TD, are eligible for funding from their respective institutions.

This is an accomplishment of which we are very proud.

Since the inception of TD in 2005 members of the editorial staff
have made work of securing contributions that could hold their own under
conditions of high peer reviewing standards.

The achievement can be attributed to our faithful readers,
subscribers and contributors. Without them the journal would hardly have reached
this milestone in the space of less than three years. We thank all partners for
their support in this endeavour.

Our journal is committed to opening up lines of communication
between disciplines. We also need to communicate with civil society at all
levels. Ultimately we have to communicate knowledge that can be useful to
science and society at large.

Should there be any suggestions as to how we can make the
journal a better read and platform of knowledge, please let us know.

Recent Submissions

As HIV/AIDS continues to spread and affect the lives of millions of people, a sense of
urgency has developed about the imperative need to stop the epidemic. Education is the
key to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. ...

In this article, two contrasting theories on the attitudes of unskilled blue collar workers
are confronted: the ‘embourgeoisement’ thesis and the hypothesis of the ‘authoritarianism
of the working class’. The ‘embourgeoisement’ ...

Although the Concord Sonata is traditionally regarded as a sonata, it is atypical of the
genre and is often considered as enigmatic. To understand this composition, a
transdisciplinary approach is essential by, more ...

In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of
knowledges in their diverse manifestations and any disregard for this idea would mean
a distortion of knowledge while creating ...

Many water distribution systems in South Africa are deteriorating due to many years of
neglect resulting in a serious maintenance backlog. Recent government legislation has
introduced free basic water to all South Africans ...

Economists associate long-term economic growth with technological progress. Earlier growth
literature, as well as modern literature, states to sustain a positive growth rate of output per
capita in the long run, there ...

The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies
in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their
role in facilitating the channelling of production ...